Weaponized Headgear

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"Aside from it being painfully useless, I was also disappointed with the guide for not including a list of hat-related catch phrases I can scream before a knockout. 'Hats off to ya! Shit CAPpens! Hate to HABERdash your hopes! Now HAT's more like it!' I mean, those only took me 90 minutes to come up with and I'm just some guy who's never killed anyone with a hat."

The Big O: the Megadeuce fires lasers from the red crest on its head. R. Dorothy could launch her "hairband" to circle around like a boomerang and then catch an enemy's neck and "staple" him to a wall or something similar.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Speedwagon's hat apparently has bladed edges, as he manages to throw it and have it sink bone-deep into JoJo's arm in his introductory chapter.

In Rozen Maiden Ouverture, Souseiseki throws her hat to disarm Shinku during a fight.

In Tono to Issho, Masamune has an Imagine Spot wherein he throws the huge crescent moon crest on his helmet like a boomerang.

Kill la Kill: The ultimate form of Nonon Jakuzure's first Three-Star Uniform is named "Symphony Regalia Da Capo" and has only one attack: a giant wave of sound fired from her conductor's helmet. This move is particularly effective on Life Fiber wearers, as it shuts down the connection between the outfit and its user.

Card Games

In Munchkin, any Headgear that gives a combat bonus could count. It's most obvious in Munchkin Fu, which has the "Bull Kung Fu" style that triples the combat bonus of all headgear.

Munchkin Impossible has a Shooty Hat. (The Assassin class doesn't get their gun bonus for wearing it, though.)

One of the cards in the Girl Genius card game is "General Cannon-hat and His Amazing Cannon Hat", which is pretty much what you'd expect from the title.

Both Hermes and Jay Garrick's helmets have been thrown as decap pieces.

There were two Mad Hatters ... one of whom used his as a mind control device whilst the other actually used weaponized hats ... such as straw hats that had buzzsaw rims ... etc.

Stovepipe, one of Tomahawk's rangers in Tomahawk, kept a small arsenal of weapons and explosives concealed in his stovepipe hat. Some might question the wisdom of keeping explosives strapped to your head, but it is established that Stovepipe managed to survive the war.

In the Fables series (from DC's Vertigo line), the animal Fables had weaponized headgear (including a gun on a helmet, which was a normal gun with a unique firing mechanism, as Snow White was able to fire the gun) for the inevitable fight against the Adversary.

Meet the Robinsons: The bowler hat worn by the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Bowler Hat Guy is not only a former robotic "helping hat" capable of cloning miniature versions of itself, mind control, spying, mechanical claws, and levitation, but it is also the true villain of the entire movie.

In the opening temple scene of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock takes out one of Lord Blackwood's thugs by putting a bowler hat (stolen from another guard) over his eyes, then punching him during the momentary disorientation this causes.

In Miss Congeniality, undercover federal agent Gracie Hart uses the Miss United States crown to knock a saboteur hiding behind a Statue Of Liberty backdrop off the stage, since it was rigged with explosives.

In Machete Kills, Miss San Antonio's crown is razor sharp and can be thrown.

Literature

Bruenor Battlehammer, mainstay of R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt books and leader of the Battlehammer Dwarf clan, wears a distinctive one-horned helm that he is more than willing to use as a weapon. It was originally a two-horned helm, but it's been through a lot of fights and come out worse for the wear.

In the same series, a dwarf berserker with the improbable name of Thibbledorf Pwent has a helmet with a large spike (half as tall as the dwarf himself) designed specifically for skewering people by headbutting them. His armor is similarly designed for use as a weapon.

In one of the Discworld books, Willikins mentions that he was in a gang when he was a kid, and he used a hat lined with sharpened pennies as a weapon.

Inigo Skimmer, from the same series, has a hat that basically has a chakram sewn into the brim.

In A Song of Ice and Fire Tyrion's first battle had him wearing a set of extremely mismatched armor including a helmet with an oversized spike on it. After being dismounted he headbutted a horse with it, and the knight who was riding was severely hurt in the fall. The spike broke off though.

In The Looking-Glass Wars, this trope seems to be a trait possessed by all hats belonging to members of the Millinery, said hats being able to change between being headgear and weaponry with a flick of the wrist.

In Sergey Lukyanenko's The Stars Are Cold Toys, the Alary are, basically, human-sized rats that evolved into sentient beings on another world. Given that their forward limbs aren't very well suited for anything but crawling, all their weapons are head-mounted and operated with the tongue. Good luck talking while shooting.

In Power Rangers Zeo, the Zeo Megazord had various helmets it could wear. The default one only allowed use of the sword, but the rest had their weaponry built-in. Of note is the one that had a laser cannon mounted on it. The helmet used would often fall in with whoever was the featured character for that episode, as a form of Leader Forms the Head.

The Kajiki Shinken-Oh in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger has a headgear on which the katana sticks, allowing it to fell its enemies by just swinging its head around. Conversely, the Swordfish Megazord in Power Rangers Samurai does the same.

In Tensou Sentai Goseiger, the Rangers' animal designs can leave their helmets and attack (in the opening sequence, at least.)

MythBusters: busted that razor-edged hats can be used to decapitate marble statues.

Prince Harry: Well, he came round the corner, saw the archbishop, rushed towards him with his head bowed in order to receive his blessing — and unfortunately killed him stone dead. Prince Edmund: How? Prince Harry: Mortimer was wearing a Turkish helmet. Prince Edmund:One of those things with a two-foot spike coming out of the top?

In The Avengers, Steed sometimes used his steel-lined bowler hat as a bludgeon.

Ultra Seven has a fin on his head that he uses as the boomerang-like Eye Slugger, but he can also fire a beam (the Emerium Ray) from the green light on his forehead.

Kamen Rider OOO has Head Medals, which give him differing powers dependent on the Medal used (such as the Hawk Medal granting Super Senses, the Lion Medal giving off light, and so on).

Tabletop Games

Warhammer 40,000: there is an Eldar hero who is the leader of the Eldar Gang of Hats called Striking Scorpions, whose helmet-mounted Flechette Storm guns are called Mandiblasters. He just gets a much more powerful version.

Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka in 2nd Edition had not only a bionic skull, but a nasty horned helmet atop it - with their powers combined they could deliver a headbutt that not only struck at the highest possible strength in the game but also "sends the unlucky victim (or his corpse...) flying backwards", dealing damage to anything it hits. So from a weaponized hat to a weaponized victim in one easy move.

The original Deadlands supplement Smith and Robards has a Stetson Gun. That's right. A ten gallon cowboy hat that shoots people.

Such a gun was patented. It was tested on the TV show ReInventors. It's a worse idea than it sounds.

1st and 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons had helmets with magical attacks (there may be 3E/4E versions of these).

Gunhatz from Gruntz. They reduce half the ranged damage dealt to the wearer, have the best range in the game, and are a two hit kill on all Gruntz unless the target is also wearing a Gunhat.

Cerebella in Skullgirls wears a bioweapon in the form of a hat called Vice-Versa. When in use it produces gigantic arms and a skull with upward-pointed horns. She uses the head-arms to grapple and smash opponents into submission.

A craftable helm in World of Warcraft allows the wearer to throw a fireball, as well as a pair of goggles that come with a functioning gun installed.

Stroker and Hoop demonstrates the problems with this trope when Double-Wide puts on a helmet with a turret gun attached to it controlled by an AI to fight zombies. Every time the gun fires it painfully knocks Double-Wide's head back, injuring his neck.

In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, a villain threatens Dexter to join him... or else. At this point, the villain's henchmen demonstrate their terrifying weapons. One of them is, apparently, a football helmet with a hammer head on it. Unfortunately, we never get to see it in action.

On Cool McCool, Dr. Madcap's hats often contained weapons like guns or anvils.

During the infamous FIU-Miami football brawl, Miami's Anthony Reddick ripped off his helmet and swung it at an FIU player.

Razorblades or sharpened pennies concealed in the brim of a flat cap are a long-established traditional method of carrying a concealed weapon in the more insalubrious parts of Scotland's major cities, though conventional stabbing is beginning to displace it.

The Helmet Gun, invented back in 1916 by Albert Bacon Pratt. It was to be operated by blowing into a tube to make a shot, and the biggest hurdle to overcome was recoil.

Sikh warriors would place small weapons like knives and daggers in their turbans, and weapons like chakrams on their turbans in order to carry weapons and attack with parts that are left sticking out.

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